Shopping

So I used to love to  shop....browse, now it falls to the bottom of my list mainly because it is never just me who is shopping.  It really is  not so bad, the kids are some what "shopping trained" meaning-we know the stores that have kid sections, if not we have the two store rule of a treat if all are good-thank goodness for the gumballs.  Best of all I don't have to deal with the brute double stroller or baby car seat, and I am not trying  to beat  the clock  based on a nursing schedule. Today we headed out to do some quick shopping before the weekend hits-because even with kids, shopping without the crowds it much better than the people crazy weekends.  Today I had two funny/annoying moments......First, I found that James keep my budget in check.  I had reached the checkout, thankful that I was able to find the things on my list only to look in the cart and find...ONE ITEM???  The little stinker had been throwing out all my stuff as I was gift shopping.  Back we went re-tracing our steps, and what do you know? there they all were, one by one down the isles.  Well, on to the other funny moment today.  Things were actually going very well, we were actually on our fifth and final store checking out.  James was in an empty shopping cart-containment is crucial, even with the risk of him falling out.  Our check-out guy was fairly young, pretty friendly but as he was running my card I could hear him mutter....man, your kid is really freaking out!  huh???  No screaming, no kicking....okay so he was enjoying opening and closing the baby seat of the grocery cart, over and over.  Funny thing was I wouldn't have even noticed-when I did I guess he did look kind of crazy, seeing as he was really pushing and pulling at that seat over and over....oh, well-he was happy and that's all that mattered to me.  Happy Christmas shopping to all!